THE ATHENS RIOTS
TALES OF DISORDER. 150 YENIZELISTS KILLED. Reuter'a Telcgramsj (Received December 12th. 10.10 p.m.) LONDON, December 12. Refugees who have arrived at Salonica from Athens give terrible accounts of fiie Greek disorders. They estimate that 150 Yenizelists were-killed daring the massacre, -whicli was characterised hv systematic attacks and persecutions. It is reported that King Constantino's aide-de-camp had ten pro-Yeni-zelist soldiers shot. A Greek deputy, perceiving his (?) mother and sister leaving a dangerous neighbourhood, pointed them out as Veniaelists. and left them to the fury of the Royalist mob.
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Press, Volume LII, Issue 15772, 13 December 1916, Page 9
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